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March 28, 2024

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Arden John (b. 1930-10-26 / d. 2012-03-28)

He was a English playwright whose works tended to expose social issues of personal concern. He was a member of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Dupasquier
Jason. 2021-05-30

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Born 2001-09-07. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

Jason Dupasquier was a Swiss motorcycle rider who competed in the Moto3 class in the motorcycle world championship until his death at the 2021 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix. He was the son of Motocross rider Philippe Dupasquier.

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Mesplé
Magdeleine (alias: Mady Mesplé). 2020-05-30

89

Born 1931-03-07. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

Mady Mesplé was a French opera singer, considered the leading high coloratura soprano of her generation in France, and sometimes heralded as the successor to Mado Robin. In the mid-90's, Mesplé began suffering from Parkinson's Disease, leading her to work closely with the "Association France Parkinson" and to write a book, entitled La Voix du corps : Vivre avec la maladie de Parkinson, about her career and the development of her illness.

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Kneen
Daniel Richard. 2018-05-30

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Born 1987-06-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

Daniel Richard Kneen was a professional motorcycle racer from Douglas, Isle of Man. Kneen was a race winner at the Manx Grand Prix (three times) and the Ulster Grand Prix, and finished on the podium at the 2017 Isle of Man TT, in the Superstock race. Kneen died of multiple injuries after an accident during qualifying for the 2018 Isle of Man TT, the 147th competitor to be killed at the Mountain Course during a TT meeting.

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Cosey
Pete. 2012-05-30

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Born 1943-10-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

He was an African-American guitarist most famous for playing with Miles Davis' band between 1973 and 1975. His fiercely flanged and distorted guitar bore comparisons to Jimi Hendrix. Cosey kept a low profile for much of his career (he released no solo recorded works)

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Wong
Donald Tobias. 2010-05-30

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Born 1974-06-10. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Suicide

Tobi Wong was a Canadian born designer. He was known for his appropriation of work by other designers.
One of his most elaborate productions was the Wrong Store, a hoax-like exhibition he organized in 2007 with Gregory Krum, the director of retail at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.

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Johnson
Lester. 2010-05-30

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Born 1919-01-27. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age

He was associated with the abstract expressionist movement in New York City.

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Odone
Lorenzo. 2008-05-30

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Born 1978-05-29. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Pneumonia

He was the man whose parents' battle to save him from a nerve disease was told in the movie "Lorenzo's Oil" has died at his home in Virginia.
His mother, Michaela, died in June 2000 due to lung cancer.
The father of Lorenzo Odone says his son died Friday at age 30. Doctors had predicted he would die when he was 8.
Augusto Odone says his son had come down recently with pneumonia.
Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte starred as Michaela and Augusto Odone in the 1992 movie. They formulated an oil that they said helped their son fight the neurological disease.
A study published in 2005 verified that the oil could prevent the onset of symptoms.
Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) (also known as Addison-Schilder Disease or Sudanophilic Leukodystrophy) is a rare inherited disorder that leads to progressive brain damage, failure of the adrenal gland and eventually death. ALD is one disease in a group of inherited disorders called Leukodystrophies. Adrenoleukodystrophy progressively damages the myelin, a complex fatty neural tissue that insulates many nerves of the central and peripheral nervous systems. Without myelin, nerves are unable to conduct an impulse, leading to increasing disability as myelin destruction increases and intensifies. An essential protein, called a transporter protein, is missing in sufferers. This protein is needed to carry an enzyme which is used to break down long chain fatty acids found in the normal diet. A build up of these long chain fatty acids (in the body) due to this can cause damage to the brain and the adrenal gland. The victims of ALD are nearly always male, with about one in five women carrying the disease developing a milder form in adult life. There are several different types of the disease which can be inherited in two different ways. It is more commonly inherited as an X-linked condition.

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Brialy
Jean-Claude. 2007-05-30

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Born 1933-03-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

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Hostache
Emmanuel. 2007-05-30

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Born 1975-07-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer

He was a French bobsledder who competed from 1991 to 2000. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the four-man event (tied with Great Britain) at Nagano in 1998.
At the 1999 FIBT World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Hostache won a gold in the four-man event and a bronze in the two-man event.
Prior to being a bobsledder, Hostache also competed as an athlete in the shot put and discus throw events.
Hostache died of Ewing's sarcoma, a form of cancer in 2007 after fighting the disease for eight years.

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Imamura
Shohei. 2006-05-30

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Born 1926-09-15. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:cancer (liver)

La ballade de Narayama

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Lago
Mario. 2002-05-30

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Born 1911-11-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

Emphysema.

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Bich
Marcel (alias: Baron Bic). 1994-05-30

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Born 1914-07-29. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age

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Simon
Michel. 1975-05-30

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Born 1895-04-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)

embolie pulmonaire

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Rains
Claude. 1967-05-30

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Born 1889-11-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Following The Invisible Man, Universal Studios tried to typecast him in horror films, but he broke free, starting with the role of Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), then with his Academy Award-nominated role as the conflicted corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), and followed with probably his most famous role, the suave French police Captain Renault in Casablanca (1942). In 1945, Rains became the first actor to receive a million dollar salary for his role as Julius Caesar in Caesar and Cleopatra.
Rains died from an internal haemorrhage, in Laconia, New Hampshire at the age of 77. He is interred in the Red Hill Cemetery, Moultonborough, New Hampshire.

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Szilard
Leo. 1964-05-30

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Born 1898-02-11. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age

Leo Szilard (/ˈsɪlɑːrd/; Hungarian: Szilárd Leó [ˈsilaːrd ˈlɛoː]; born Leó Spitz) was a Hungarian-American physicist and inventor. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear fission reactor in 1934, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb. According to György Marx he was one of the Hungarian scientists known as The Martians. In 1960, Szilard was diagnosed with bladder cancer. He underwent cobalt therapy at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital using a cobalt 60 treatment regimen that his doctors gave him a high degree of control over. A second round of treatment with an increased dose followed in 1962. The higher dose did its job and his cancer never returned. Szilard spent his last years as a fellow of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in the La Jolla community of San Diego, California, which he had helped to create. Szilard founded Council for a Livable World in 1962 to deliver "the sweet voice of reason" about nuclear weapons to Congress, the White House, and the American public. He was appointed a non-resident fellow there in July 1963, and became a resident fellow on April 1, 1964, after moving to San Diego in February. With his wife Trude, he lived in a bungalow on the property of the Hotel del Charro. He died there in his sleep of a heart attack; when Trude awoke, she was unable to revive him. His remains were cremated.

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Trujillo
Rafael. 1961-05-30

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Born 1891-10-24. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder

For more than 30 years, Rafael Trujillo and his family held absolute power on the Dominican side of the island of Hispaniola. Popularly, he was known as "El Jefe" (The Chief), but he was privately referred to as "Chapitas" — literally, "bottlecaps" — because of his indiscriminate use of medals. Dominican children emulated El Jefe by constructing toy medals from bottle caps. His tyranny, historically known as "La Era de Trujillo" or "The Trujillo Era", is considered one of the bloodiest of the 20th century, as well as a time of a classic personality cult, when the monuments to Rafael Trujillo were in abundance.
On the night of the May 30 1961, Rafael Trujillo was shot to death on San Cristobal Avenue, Santo Domingo. He was the victim of an ambush plotted by Modesto Diaz, Salvador Estrella Sadhalá, Antonio de la Maza, Amado García Guerrero, Manuel Cáceres Michel (Tunti), Juan Tomás Diaz, Roberto Pastoriza, Luis Amiama Tió, Antonio Imbert Barrera, Pedro Livio Cedeńo, and Huáscar Tejeda. According to American reporter Bernard Diederich, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had supplied some of the guns used to kill the president.

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Pasternak
Boris. 1960-05-30

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Born 1890-02-10. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)

Pasternak's post-Zhivago poetry probes the universal questions of love, immortality, and reconciliation with God.
Pasternak died of lung cancer. Despite only a small notice appearing in the Literary Gazette, thousands of people traveled from Moscow to his funeral in Peredelkino. "Volunteers carried his open coffin to his burial place and those who were present (including the poet Andrey Voznesensky) recited from memory the banned poem 'Hamlet'."

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Dubois
Maurice. 1944-05-30

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Born 1869-06-04. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age

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McKendrick
Anderson Gray. 1943-05-30

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Born 1876-09-08. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age

Lt Col Anderson Gray McKendrick DSc FRS was a Scottish military physician and epidemiologist who pioneered the use of mathematical methods in epidemiology. Irwin commented on the quality of his work, "Although an amateur, he was a brilliant mathematician, with a far greater insight than many professionals."

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